Posts Tagged ‘Taiwan’

Recently I was reporting from Gambia, one of the few remaining habitats of what might soon be an endangered species in Africa: the eccentric despot. With Gaddafi dead, and Mugabe increasingly infirm, ...
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The EU, reports The Times, is preparing to sell arms to China. Baroness Ashton is said to be is looking for a way to lift the embargo imposed after the Tiananmen massacres in 1989. David Cameron is fu...
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So far President Obama is still firmly holding the line on his intended meeting with the Dalai Lama when the latter comes to Washington this month. Having already received the usual apoplectic Chinese...
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And so the brickbats keep on flying between Washington and Beijing, with the latest salvo coming after Barack Obama promised a group of democratic senators he’d get tough with China over trade rules...
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It will be fascinating to see how the visit of the Dalai Lama to Taiwan affects China's newly improved relations with the island. This entire story is filled with exquisite, nay piquant, political dil...
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